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When I first met Semali, he was sitting behind his office computer wearing a white baseball cap and reading e-mail. An assistant professor of education at Penn State, Semali has two master's degrees from Stanford in communications and education, and a Ph.D. in social sciences and comparative education from UCLA—an education few would consider oppressive. But as I got to know him, I began to understand better both Semali's frustration and the roots of his harsh remark: Education is slavery of the mind.

When I first met Semali, he was sitting behind his office computer wearing a white baseball cap and reading e-mail. An assistant professor of education at Penn State, Semali has two master's degrees from Stanford in communications and education, and a Ph.D. in social sciences and comparative education from UCLA – an education few would consider oppressive. But as I got to know him, I began to understand better both Semali's frustration and the roots of his harsh remark: Education is slavery of the mind.

The forest does not advertise itself; the overwhelming impression is of a green stillness. The newcomer sees little movement or color. It helps to be quiet, to have an eye for detail, and to know where to look; it is even better to have a companion who knows the forest well." —Catherine Caufield, In the Rainforest (1985)